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Most Adachi stories are romance stories. The sports are mainly plot progression for the characters - and, while important, are normally not the whole point. I mean, some of his series do not even provide closure to the sports themes, at all... granted, you could say that about some of the romances as well, but they always seem more fleshed out to me.

Very true. the sport if just for Progression and to make the hero Cool. I think he has only made three manga that had other theme besides sport, Miyuki, Hiatari Ryoukou, and Niji Iro Togarashi and ALL them are Shounen, romance.

I cant think of a Adachi manga on top of my head that was not a romance manga.

Itsumo Misora fits the bill, outta the top of my head... and it's not really a sports manga, either. Like golthin put it, all very shonen.
And Adachi does have some seinen material, but they're not really akin to his shonen series... and deal with themes like "losing the innocence of youth" and such.

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Short Programs is one of his works that I enjoy the most. Somehow I think his type of storytelling are more suited on short storied than a long full stories ^^. Itsumo Misora is one of his works that I least enjoy reading. It's somehow too far fetched from his usual "normal" type story(it has ESP in it o_O)

Yeargh... another baseball game episode. I know its necessary to fleshen out the characters of the first string team, but that doesn't mean I have to like it since I already know what they are from the manga.

Oddly enough though, I really thought the 'control or speed?' was a part of another of Adachi's manga. For me who doesn't pay my full attention to the details of the game, all the Adachi manga I read seems to be blending with each other in terms of sports lol.

Oh well, next episode seems to be the end of the game early on, so I'm happy.

In any case, the thing I love about Adachi is that the romance isn't really about the 'chase'. What I mean is that his stories generally don't focus on the characters actively seeking out their LIs to be their official significant other, but rather he spends the majority of the time developing and fleshening out the relationship between the characters to the point where a very short chase is all that's needed to make them a plausible couple.

That's one of the reasons why he has characters like Senda, who are always on the 'chase', to act as foils to the main characters' romance geometries.

This is turn doesn't make his works as obvious a romance as, say, Kouji Seo's sport romance stories like Suzuka and Cross Over. But it's as much, if not more a romance as those stories, considering a large portion of the material focuses on relationships.

As an extra I like about Adachi recently is that the girls have as much (if not more) serious LIs as the guys do. Which is a nice change of pace of your typical harem anime/manga, as it really does heighten the romantic conflicts when you're worrying about BOTH sides of your preferred coupling. XD

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Originally Posted by onemadcow

Um, no.
Not even close.

Damn, and there goes Golthin's wonderful misdirection... I particularly thought it was rather ingenious on his part. Makes me question if he hasn't done the same with other threads...

Adachi likes having characters gradually liking each other or already liking each other. Then builds up the story/romance. Not the love-at-first-site kind of thing. Much less the "I saw her pantsu now I am obsessed kind"

I loved H2 too , the love hexangle is interesting for me, not to mention Kunimi is one of the most imbalance pitcher Adachi ever created (huge stamin, fast pitch, slider so fast that even his catcher has difficultty catching it, not to mention better hitter than his rival when he's serious, and he created his team from zero with a stupid coach) :P

I loved H2 too , the love hexangle is interesting for me, not to mention Kunimi is one of the most imbalance pitcher Adachi ever created (huge stamin, fast pitch, slider so fast that even his catcher has difficultty catching it, not to mention better hitter than his rival when he's serious, and he created his team from zero with a stupid coach) :P

the good thing about H2 was that the girl chose the guy not only because of love, but because of what she needed. Hikari got what she wanted all the time and she knew that she couldn't get that with the other guy even though she loved him a little more. It hurt from a shipper perspective, but taking the shipper goggles off you knew her reasons.